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A COLOSSAL WEEKEND is VEGA's genre-crossing, boundary-pushing festival for heavy, dark and experimental music. The festival presents over 3 days in May approximately 30 acts from all over the world, some of which will be completely new and unknown, while others will be established headliners. A Colossal Weekend has taken place since 2016 and has presented names such as Cult of Luna, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Deafheaven, Anna Von Hausswolff, Russian Circles, Wolves in The Throne Room, Emma Ruth Rundle and Alcest over the years.

In 2025, A Colossal Weekend will take place from May 8-10 at VEGA and Basement in Vesterbro in Copenhagen.

The names on the poster on Thursday are:

DOOL (NL)
DOOL , which comes from the Dutch word for 'wandering', originally emerged from the ashes of 'The Devil's Blood' and 'Elle Bandita' in 2015. Exploring their soul through rhythms and melodies, the debut album 'Here Now, There Then born. Not long after its release in 2017, the album was awarded Metal Hammer's 'Debut Album Of The Year'. Dool have developed their own unique sound, blending progressive rock music with metal, post-rock and catchy songwriting.

TELEPATHY (UK)
The Suffolk quartet plays cinematic sludge metal, mixing abrasive riffs with atypical moods and sound clips from the radio and much more in their instrumental narratives. Their fourth studio albumTransmission, which came out in 2024, marks the band's rebirth. Telepathy draws inspiration from many forms of music and from the feeling of being absorbed in a film or the music for a film. They play with conventions and limitations, bending metal on astral planes, transforming matter into airwaves, exploring being and time in musical multiverses. Their immersive post-metal is an invitation to personal introspection.

ORANSSI PAZUZU (FI)
Finnish ORANGE PAZUZU pushing the boundaries of heavy and extreme music with their latest albumConvert, released on Nuclear Blast Records in October 2024. If Oranssi Pazuzu belongs to a genre, it's their own, a mix of distorted clouds of noise, psychedelic black metal, and radio signals from hostile aliens.

"Converter" meansshapeshifter, and is described as an interdimensional, mutating, cosmic horror of a constrictor. The sounds are disturbing, the guitar riffs sound like condensed white noise, the rhythms nauseating, you get the feeling that the music is a formidable and malevolent creature on a collision course. Noise effects have always been a part of the band's black metal sound, and in the new transmutation the noise discharges reach unheard violent climaxes.

CHAT ARROWS (US)
Chat Arrows comes from Oklahoma City's slushy noise rock territory with their second full-length album Cool World (2024). The band challenges their own comfort tones by mixing their sludgy sound with traces of metal grooves, goth-inspired lamentation and alternative indie-inspired hooks.

Chat Pile – a synonym for towering piles of toxic waste – is a reminder that fear has replaced the American dream of freedom. OnCool WorldThe band addresses apocalyptic disasters through subthemes such as postcolonial human rights abuses, passive consumer violence, mental anguish such as hopelessness, and other atrocities that are more or less permanent components of modern life.

AGRICULTURE (US)
AGRICULTURE , an 'ecstatic' black metal band with roots in LA's noise underground scene, are musically visionary beyond the ordinary. While playing songs from their self-titled album (2023) and two EPs, Living Is Easy (2024) and Circle Chant (2022), the band has a knack for completely mesmerizing their audience!

Agriculture is revolutionizing black metal as we know it. Rather than the dark and macabre, Agriculture uses their extreme music to express absolute bliss, overwhelming love, and awe-inspiring exaltation – emotions that transcend the mundane. Their music explores self-acceptance and finding strength in others, such as their masterful song, “The Glory of the Ocean,” which expresses a deep connection to nature and the people we surround ourselves with.

MACHUKHA (UA/IE)
The black-metal/post-hardcore band MACHUKHA is a wild and intense project with Ukrainian Natalya and Irish Bláthin as the creative driving force.

The Ukrainian band went live late in 2023 but could easily be the band that stands out. On their debut albumMochari(Mochari) uses elements of post-black metal and dark hardcore. It is from 2024, released on Consouling Sounds and included collaborations with producers Jan Oberg (Downfall of Gaia; The Ocean) and Jack Shirley (Deafheaven; Amenra; Wiegedod) in the process.

(O) (DK)
(0) is first and foremost a band whose music breaks down the boundaries between black metal, progressive metal, drone and post-metal. The debut EP from 2017 showed the band's experimental, versatile play with different genres. However, throughout, (0)'s unique expression can be heard in the insistent and patient guitar structures.

SLIM0 (DK)
SLIM0 is a Danish/Montenegrin/Iranian underground band that plays doomy art-grunge and grungy art-doom. Forgiveness is the title of their debut album, which was released on the record label 15 love in the fall of 2024 after several self-released EPs.

The group has a social-activist approach to being an artist and uses their music as a means of resistance, being involved in grassroots movements such as Drummers Against Occupation and Dykes Against the Machine. Their music asks: What does pain, sorrow, love and solidarity mean to you?

NEW MONEY (DK)
From the Copenhagen underground emerges NEW MONEY — a band that arms itself with riffs, verbal ear-splitting and breakdowns of grotesque calibers, and with a sound and expression heavily steeped in chaotic hardcore and noise rock, they deliver fierce, unfiltered music with sharp elbows that refuses to be pigeonholed.

The music is fiery and fiery and sounds like outbursts of anger and singing slaps, but something also needs to be done when you join forces with the powerlessness that capitalism breeds and where there are not many options for action for the individual. The use of sonic weapons feels good, but don't do it alone, it also requires black humor and a sense of the absurd to join the fight to make the world a better place.

ST. DIGUE - Bloom & Wilt Anniversary (DK)
St. Digue is the solo name of singer, guitarist and producer Kasper Deichmann, who creates darkwave and gloomy electronic dance music. What started as a side project in a bedroom in Copenhagen 2020 has since turned into live performances at Copenhell and several places in Europe as well as several music releases, most recently the EPDeathwave(2024).

At the A Colossal Weekend festival, St. Digue will exclusively perform his first two works, “Bloom” and “Witt”, both from 2020.

The music can be described as follows: With tsunamis of electronic shock waves created by industrial soundscapes, melancholic guitar tones, hard-hitting drum machines and desperate screams, St. Digue opens the gates to aneurospicy parallel universe of trauma, alienation and doomsday.

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The concert is supported by Liveurope. Liveurope is the first pan-European initiative supporting concert venues in their efforts to promote emerging European artists. Liveurope is co-funded by the EU's Creative Europe programme.